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From Nathan Yau in his book Visualize This: Visualization One of the best ways to explore and try to understand a large dataset is with visualization. Place the numbers into a visual space and let …
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Simon Hearn, one of the team of evaluators who put together the 10 things to know about evaluation infographic I mentioned last week, left me a comment on the post. The comment sparked today's …
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As a data designer and cartoonist, I have been heavily influenced by Scott McCloud's book on Understanding Comics. The cool thing about his book is that many of the concepts can be applied very …
Today's cartoon flashback comes from a post I put together early last year on the RCT Gold Standard Rhetoric. I tried, and failed, to find the source of the rhetoric, only a kooky theory about Harry …
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Today's inspiration comes from IDEO.org's designkit. It's one of 7 mindsets that lie at the core of their human-centered design process. You can also hear it spoken in context by Krista Donaldson in …
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Today's illustration was inspired by Ann K Emery's blog post on six alternatives to the clustered bar chart. We can all agree that 3-d exploding pie charts are pretty rotten. My vote for worst …
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Today's illustration was inspired by an infographic created by the Overseas Development Institute. 5. 'Failures" are important. Evaluation is sometimes driven by desire to show that a …
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Today's illustration inspired by one part of Tom Archibald's blog post on Fostering Evaluative Thinking. Create an intentional ET learning environment Display logic models or other theory of …
Today's cartoon inspired by David Fetterman, who left this in a comment on last Friday's ethnography blog post. For those who don't know David, he's written a significant book on the …
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Today's cartoon was inspired by a story on NPR about The Tabla Master Who Jammed With The Grateful Dead: In the 1960s, Western musicians were becoming interested in Indian music, and Hussain found …
Today's cartoon flashback comes from a post featuring ethics stories contributed by a silent collaborator. I think this was my favorite of the bunch. Defining Outlier Evaluators: “Here are the …
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Today's cartoon inspiration comes from Leslie Groves and Irene Guijt on Better Evaluation: Participation not for you? Four reflections that might just change your mind For us, “participatory …
